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Civil service or move on?

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Wardza · 25/01/2025 07:18

Hello everyone I hope you are well and having a lovely not too windy weekend!

I have been temping at the CS for a few months now and a vacancy has come up, my manager and his manager encouraged me to apply and I did and I believe there is a strong possibility that I can get the job (unless the interview is a massive disaster)

The role is simple and quite repetitive, I like the fact that I can do it easily and I will be getting more training soon to go into more interesting stuff... but I dont see myself staying there for more than 1 year maybe?

I have been looking at other roles and cannot really find anything better/that is worth the hassle changing for (For context I was working in education after a 10 year career break when I went on maternity leave and decided to stay at home to look after the little ones) So for me the fact that i am working there even at AO level is a milestone already.

Should I go for the role or should I look elsewhere? For those working in CS, how did you find moving around departments/roles? I just dont want to stay stuck for years doing the same boring stuff... Also I completed AAT level 2 and I was looking into continuing to level 3, how flexible would there be to allow me to work 4 days a week instead of 5? Is that something that can be done from day one or you have to have worked at the CS for a few months to be able to ask for reduction in days?

Sorry for the many questions and thank you so much in advance xxx

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Abracadabra12345 · 02/03/2025 18:19

That's fantastic! I used to love working in the Civil Service back in the day: some really quirky depts and roles and a proper career structure which not all public sector have

Harassedevictee · 03/03/2025 09:27

Congratulations.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 03/03/2025 23:38

I would stay there for the perks and the flexibility and the training opportunities and the doors it could open - if the work is a little boring that's so much bigger than being stressed

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